Triple H has teased the possibility of Sting making an entrance in a WWE ring.

The iconic WCW wrestler has never been part of the rival company, but was this week confirmed as a pre-order launch exclusive playable character for the WWE 2K15 video game, and the WWE Shop started the sale of an iconic Scorpion T-shirt.

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"Sting, one of the biggest legends in the history of the industry, finally in a WWE video game where you have the opportunity to see what you've probably wanted to see for the last 20 years," WWE COO Triple H told Michael Cole.

"That is Sting against 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin, Sting against The Rock, Sting against The Undertaker, Sting against Triple H - Sting against every legend that there has ever been in this business.

"It doesn't get any bigger than that. If you are a video game fan, if you are a WWE fan this is what you've been waiting for. Sting in the 2K15 video game."

Asked if we would ever see Sting the Superstar in a WWE ring "in the flesh", Triple H responded: "It's an interesting question, Michael.

"There's been a lot of speculation over the years. The again, over the years I'd heard that Bruno Sammartino would never be part of the WWE again.

"I heard for years that the Ultimate Warrior would never be part of the WWE again. And I've also heard that Sting would never, ever be part of the WWE.

"If there's one thing I've learned over the years is never say never if it's best for business."

Triple H is believed to have personally managed the negotiations that saw the estranged Sammartino and Warrior re-enter the fold and be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013 and 2014 respectively.

While many WCW stars crossed over to the then-WWF at the end of the Monday Night Wars, Sting opted against doing so having seen how his former colleagues were treated.

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"The Rock looks at Booker T and he says, 'Who are you?'. That one little comment is all it took to just bury somebody - in my opinion - bury somebody like Booker T," Sting explained a while back.

"After all the years that I'd put into wrestling up to that point, it just seemed like a gamble to me. I didn't trust how I would be used."

Even as recently as 2011,there were rumours that Sting would take on The Undertaker's then-existing Streak at WrestleMania XXVII, but the WCW/WWF fallout was still too Raw.

"It's a dream match that fans would want to see. It was close. I'm glad things turned out the way they did. Let's just say that I turned it down for the same reasons I always have," Sting told the Daily Star at the time.

"Something in me never trusted what would happen up there, based entirely on the track record with other WCW guys and everything that went on after Vince bought WCW."

Sting made his debut for the WCW in 1991 and had iconic feuds with 'Hollywood' Hulk Hogan, the New World Order (nWo), Vader, Rick Rude, The Four Horsemen and Ric Flair.

After WCW closed, Sting had stints with World Wrestling All-Stars and then TNA Wrestling, leaving Dixie Carter's company in January of this year.

Former WWE commentating icon Jim 'JR' Ross wrote on his blog the following month: "In my perfect, booking world, which actually doesn't exist and is an oxymoronic statement, Sting would have one match... a retirement match at WM31 against a suitable villain.

"Even though some will lobby for that retirement match opposition to be Undertaker... a smaller, athletic young talent who needs the 'rub' would arguably be ideal."

Reprising his match with Ric Flair from the inaugural September 4, 1995 Nitro, this time Sting defeated his old rival before they embraced in the ring.

Asked about the possibility of a Sting return, former WCW star Chris Jericho, who came back to the WWE last month, told Digital Spy: "If he comes to the WWE, good for him, it's great. I saw him a couple of times in TNA and you know pretty much what he can do at this point in time.

"He is a legend and to have him come to the WWE for the first time would be great, but after a week or two what's he going to do there?

"If you're a hardcore fan it might be cool - for me it doesn't really matter either way; if that's what he wants to do then good for him, and I hope he shows up.

"And if not, then I don't think it's going to make a difference either way in WWE business. It's not 1998 anymore, you know."